Control: severity -1 normal
On 2024-04-03 11:29 +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 08:58:32PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>> Thanks, that sounds great that we can finally get rid out of those in
>> the debian package.
>>
>> > $ git diff --stat b06cd070f..128a3ae35
>> > man3/pthread_cond_init.3 | 264 ++++++++++++++++++++
>> > man3/pthread_condattr_init.3 | 48 ++++
>> > man3/pthread_key_create.3 | 178 +++++++++++++
>> > man3/pthread_mutex_init.3 | 241 ++++++++++++++++++
>> > man3/pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np.3 | 52 ++++
>> > man3/pthread_once.3 | 44 ++++
>> > 6 files changed, 827 insertions(+)
>
> I now see that `apt-file show glibc-doc` shows several more pages. I'll
> have a look at them and maybe I also import them into the Linux
> man-pages project.
AFAICS all of them have already been added there, right?
>> > Debian's manpages-dev_6.7-1_all.deb has been the first package since
>> > that happened, and I've noticed that dpkg(1) (via apt-get(8)) refuses to
>> > upgrade manpages-dev due to a conflict with glibc-doc.
>> >
>> > $ sudo apt-get upgrade -V;
>> > [...]
>> > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
>> > Reading changelogs... Done
>> > (Reading database ... 404853 files and directories currently installed.)
>> > Preparing to unpack .../manpages-dev_6.7-1_all.deb ...
>> > Unpacking manpages-dev (6.7-1) over (6.05.01-1) ...
>> > dpkg: error processing archive
>> > /var/cache/apt/archives/manpages-dev_6.7-1_all.deb (--unpack):
>> > trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man3/pthread_cond_init.3.gz',
>> > which is also in package glibc-doc 2.38-6
>> > Errors were encountered while processing:
>> > /var/cache/apt/archives/manpages-dev_6.7-1_all.deb
>> > needrestart is being skipped since dpkg has failed
>> > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>>
>> I think this is actually not specific to the experimental version, those
>> manpages are also in the unstable version.
>
> Right. I only installed the experimental one to see if the bug had
> been fixed (as reportbug(1) suggested trying it).
>
>> > Please, remove from glibc-doc those manual pages that conflict with
>> > manpages-dev.
>>
>> Noted. However following the time_t transition, the glibc package does
>> not build anymore on 32-bit architectures (i have just opened #1059937
>> to make people aware of that), so uploading a new glibc now is probably
>> not the best idea.
>
> Hmm, maybe you can drop the manual pages, but not upload yet, and wait
> for that bug to be fixed to do an upload without the pages.
Note that manpages-dev 6.7-2 has dropped the clashing files for the time
being. I do not think there is any need to hurry, so I am downgrading
the severity of this bug. Whenever the glibc-doc package in unstable
drops the manpages, we should file a bug against manpages-dev to include
them again.
Cheers,
Sven
